Cartographies of the Voice: Storying the Land as Survivance in Native American Oral Traditions

Cartographies of the Voice: Storying the Land as Survivance in Native American Oral Traditions

This article examines how Native places are made, named, and reconstructed after colonization through storytelling. Storying the land is a process whereby the land is invested with the moral and spiritual perspectives specific to Native American communities. As seen in the oral traditions and writte...

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Main Author: Ivanna Yi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-07-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
Native American oral traditions
storytelling and the environment
Algonkian oral narrative
Haudenosaunee/Iroquois oral narrative
Hopi oral narrative
Joy Harjo
Leslie Marmon Silko
Popol Vuh
Western Apache oral narrative
decolonization
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/62

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